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An argument for how (and why) to incentivise replication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2018

Piers D. L. Howe
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. pdhowe@unimelb.edu.auamy.perfors@unimelb.edu.auhttps://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person340666http://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/chdh/ccs
Amy Perfors
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia. pdhowe@unimelb.edu.auamy.perfors@unimelb.edu.auhttps://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person340666http://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/chdh/ccs

Abstract

Although Zwaan et al. (2018) have made a compelling case as to why direct replications should occur more frequently than they do, they do not address how such replications attempts can best be encouraged. We propose a novel method for incentivising replication attempts and discuss some issues surrounding its implementation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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